Oh Beautiful Release or Where are the strawberries

My very first on-screen kiss was in my very first film that no one ever saw because it never came out. I was 11 years old and hadn’t kissed a boy before. I went up to the director, Amy Heckerling who did Clueless, and said, ‘Okay. How long do you want me to kiss this guy for because I don’t want this going on for very long?’ She said, ‘You know, a few seconds.’ ‘No, how many seconds?’ She said, ‘I don’t know. Maybe three seconds?’ Every time we’d do a take, I’d make sure it was only three seconds and I’d pull away.

My very first on-screen kiss was in my very first film that no one ever saw because it never came out. I was 11 years old and hadn’t kissed a boy before. I went up to the director, Amy Heckerling who did Clueless, and said, ‘Okay. How long do you want me to kiss this guy for because I don’t want this going on for very long?’ She said, ‘You know, a few seconds.’ ‘No, how many seconds?’ She said, ‘I don’t know. Maybe three seconds?’ Every time we’d do a take, I’d make sure it was only three seconds and I’d pull away.

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I’ve always wanted to act. It was really only after I’d done Atonement that I really fell in love with acting. It’s mad what I do for a living, but I think I’m really lucky to be around so many brilliant and talented people. - Saoirse Ronan

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I’m never merciful, and knowledge is a fatal thing.

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A lot of people say to me, ‘You know, she’s a bitch and a brat.’ They say really horrible things about her and I get a bit defensive over Briony because she’s really close to me. She’s really special to me. And I think that she’s this child in the 1930s that would never have seen anything like this. They didn’t have television. She didn’t listen to the radio. Only grown-ups did that. Plus, the main thing is she’s a storyteller. And you see at the start of the movie her little toys are all lined up in order. And then it comes up to her and she’s writing this story. That basically sums up Briony’s personality because she sees all these things through the day and she’s completely confused. She tries to put some order to it in her head… it’s like, she makes herself believe that this has to happen because it fits into her story in her mind. - Saoirse Ronan

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I like doing my own stunts because it’s always going to look more realistic. There’s a stunt where I jumped off a balcony and they just put me on a harness. They asked me if I wanted to do it and apparently there were bets going around saying that I wouldn’t do it. And I proved them all wrong.

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It was a bit of a challenge because you’re getting the chance to play two characters in one film. Playing someone like Wanda, the alien, who’s naive to everything. And Melanie, who is very feisty and mouthy and hits people…It was great.

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